Friday, March 26, 2010

Good & Inexpensive Grad Schools:

School that are free, cheap and okay, recommended to us by Paul Ramirez Jonas when he was here:

Carnegie Mellon
USC (University of Southern California, for a year or two more)
Tyler (part of Temple University)
Hunter
VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University)

For more advanced and perhaps older students I have heard that Stanford will pay you to go there.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

RESEARCH OUR VISITING ARTIST PAUL RAMIREZ JONAS

For Monday March 15, bring to class for discussion your research on Paul. Look for reviews online. See and read links below.

Paul Ramirez Jonas creates as he speaks. He builds his pieces from found systems and pre-existing texts—everything from diaries to footpaths to sheet music. What others would call re-inventions, he calls re-enactment, following the blueprints laid out in the originals. Considering himself merely a reader, he treats these systems and texts as a score, where the act of “reading” can take the form of a performance, sculpture, photograph, or video.

Paul's Website HERE

Interview with Paul HERE

ARTIST RESEARCH PAPER DUE THURS MARCH 29

An artist chosen from international gallery list (see early entry for this assignment on this blog)